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<strong>Today</strong> at 10:12:39<br/>
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Have you updated your forum software lately? ...
Turn it off and back on again.
Show quick-moderation as
I'm forcefully-suscribed to so many silly/dumb/zero-value threads that I'm going to need therapy soon!
What has worked for me is to find my posts in the thread and delete them. Then I am no longer subscribed to that thread. Of course that kinda damages the thread, and it shouldn't be necessary to do it that way, but I've found nothing else that works. May do that here too, depending.
It also (the forum), seems to be missing a subscribe to thread. When you come across an interesting thread, but the only way seems to be to put a post in it (to subscribe to it).
If the thread is something, that a person lacks any knowledge in, e.g. SPAM BOT gibberish (or whatever it is, possibly human?), creating a significantly nonsense thread, with very silly nonsensical questions (there is, arguably a current thread, similar to that, about storing electrolytic capacitors). It would be nice to be able to subscribe to it, without being forced to post in the crazy thread.
But also, being able to UNSUBSCRIBE from such threads, would also be very useful.
I suppose it is limits of the forum software system and its capabilities.
There is the notify button, but maybe that is to subscribe to email notifications that a thread is updated. Activate it on to many and your mailbox gets flooded.
Did a quick scan with google and a search in the SMF manual, but can't find anything other than the email notification for subscribing to a topic.
https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/SMF2.0:Main_Page
'Keep It Simple Silly' (KISS)